One day I woke up and my mom told me that we were moving to the United States. The first thing that came to my mind was that it was going to be hard to fit in for the culture and people were different. In the essay "Las Mañanita" the author, Elizabeth Rodriguez Kessler, talks about her experience of growing up and being raised in a bicultural family. She is a girl …showed first 75 words of 1219 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1219 total…identity is just certain characteristics that make me unique and different from everyone else. Like Rodriguez, I have finally defined myself as a young woman whose identity could be either Latino or American. It does not matter how people see me or what they say about me. I am always going to have my Latino background, but I also have to accommodate to this country that has been my home for most of my years.